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Join the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalist Association, the International Center for Journalists, and Google for a day-long summit featuring industry leaders from Washington DC, plus demos and hands-on workshops with Google product experts. Bring your laptop and be prepared to dive into the latest tips and tricks at this free event.

Registration:
Attendance is free, but please RSVP HERE to confirm participation. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to participants.

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When:
July 10
7:30- 10 p.m.

Where:
Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11th Street
Brooklyn, NY

With unpublished work from the world’s top photographers, Michael Kamber’s new book Photojournalists on War features a groundbreaking visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.

Join Brooklyn Brewery and War Correspondents at the Brooklyn Brewery for a dialogue on the shocking and heroic actions taken by journalists in covering the war, featuring:

Michael Kamber: Pulitzer-prize nominated writer and photojournalist, NY Times chief photographer in Baghdad in 2007, author of Photojournalists on War

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased here. Ticket includes admission and a free Brooklyn Brewery beer. All proceeds from the events in this series benefit RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues).

Forty million tablet devices were sold in 2012, and the introduction of the iPad mini and similar 7-inch tablets as well are reopening doors for design and the news industry. You’re not too late to embrace this next wave of skills and technology, and to appreciate some of the best work being done in journalism today.

The Minnesota Journalism Center is co-sponsoring this event and will be hosting a reception and roundtable Friday evening for all attendees. The roundtable will feature local professionals sharing their design stories.

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Opportunity to get a crash course in coding coming up in May. The workshop is put on by Code with Me, a series of programming workshops for journalists across the United States.

A workshop for beginners: Learn to code with a mentor by your side. You want to learn how to program, but the newsroom always needs you to do something else instead. Maybe you’ve even tried on your own, but it’s hard without someone there to help. At Code with me, a two-day workshop, we pair one professional with every two students, and teach you how to code from the ground up.

We’re designed for journalists without coding experience. You’ll always have the attention of a dedicated teacher so you can learn at your own pace, and never feel lost. With seventeen mentors total, you’ll join a supportive learning community that will continue on after the workshop.

Plus, you’ll have fun. You’ll learn HTML, CSS and Javascript by building your own interactive project. Our goal is to make this your turning point — an experience that not only teaches the basics of code, but gives you the skills and confidence you need to keep programming on your own and in your newsroom.

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When:
May 18-19, 2013

Where:
Austin American Statesman
305 South Congress Ave.,
Austin, TX

Code With Me is coming to Austin and you’re invited! Learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript in this weekend workshop. May 18-19 at the Statesman. The cost is $85, and space is limited. Preference will be given to journalists and journalism students.

Learn to code with a mentor by your side. Code With Me was started by Sisi Wei of ProPublica and Tom Giratikanon of New York Times. They’ve held events in Washington DC, Miami and Portland (scheduled for May 4-5) and now Austin.

You must fill out the application on the site to be considered for the workshop. You won’t be able to RSVP here on Meetup. All information, including application can be found at codewithme.us/austin/. Follow @CodeWithMe on Twitter.

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Mediashift Mixer at Book^2 Camp and Tools of Change
Please join us at the MediaShift Mixer at Solas Bar in New York as an after-party to the Book^2 Camp unconference and a prelude to O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference (see below for a discount to ToC). This will be a great place to meet people who are rethinking book publishing, the author community and self-publishers, fans of e-books and more! You don’t have to attend either of those two events to attend the Mixer. But please RSVP here to reserve your spot!

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Where:
American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 603,
Washington, DC

TRANSPARENCY IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION A Fourth-Year Assessment
Presented by WCL’s Collaboration on Government Secrecy

Since January 20, 2009, the Administration of President Barack Obama has striven to keep his presidential campaign commitment to create “the most transparent administration in history,” beginning with his sweeping “Day One” transparency and FOIA policy memoranda. After creating high expectations for the full and prompt implementation of these new transparency policies, however, the Obama Administration and its Department of Justice struggled greatly during the first presidential term to do so — which led to growing concern and even alarm in the openness-in-government community. This program, as the fifth in a series of eight such programs conducted by CGS on or near January 20 of each year, aims to gather leading experts on transparency issues together with representatives of the Obama Administration to focus on exactly what has been done, what has not in fact been done, and what most urgently still needs to be done to finally make meaningful government transparency a reality in what will now be a second Obama Administration term.

1:00 p.m. Luncheon Presentation — David Burnham, Co-Director, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), and former investigative reporter, The New York Times

2:15 p.m. Panel Three: “FOIA Regs or FOIA Dregs”– a critical review of the widespread failure of federal agencies to issue regulations required for full and proper implementation of the 2007 FOIA Amendments and the Holder FOIA Memorandum of March 2009

General Registration, no charge.
CLE Accreditation (5 credits) will be applied for — CLE Registration, $275.To register, please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/registration. Select “Transparency in the Obama Administration: A Fourth Year Assessment” from the menu under “Event Information”

For further information, please contact: Office of Special Events & Continuing
Legal Education, 202.274.4075 or secle@wcl.american.edu.

Join ONA’s Irving Washington, Jeanne Brooks, and Jennifer Mizgata as they host #wjchat this week, offering advice on applying for scholarships, fellowships, grants, and jobs. They will be joined by Ted Han,who hacks for @Documentcloud and IRE, the awesome team at #wjchat, and come of the current AP-Google Scholars. We’ll talk about opportunities and resources that are available, deadlines and how to make yourself stand out when applying.

#wjchat is a weekly twitter chat for web journalists every Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET. Each week, journalists come together for an hour and a half to discuss content, technology, ethics, and business of journalism on the web. You can follow the conversation by using the #wjchat hashtag and the organizers reccomend that you use http://tweetchat.com/room/wjchat to follow along. You can follow #wjchat on Twitter at @wjchat.

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On July 17, Breaking News and ONA hosted over 50 journalists, designers, developers and others passionate about changing the way people experience news on their mobile devices. After working through two quick design sprints, groups created prototypes to help solve common problems. Check out the eight that emerged from ONA Mobile dCamp: Seattle.